Definition of Hakea

1. Noun. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hakea

Hail Marys
Hailey
Hailey-Hailey disease
Hainan
Hainaut
Haiphong
Haiti
Haitian
Haitian Creole
Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
Haitian capital
Haitian centime
Haitian monetary unit
Haitians
Hakea
Hakea laurina
Hakea leucoptera
Haken
Hakenkreuz
Hakham
Hakka
Hakka dialect
Hakkanese
Hakkapeliitta
Hakkapeliittas
Hakkas
Hakkoz
Hakluytian

Literary usage of Hakea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1870)
"The racemes are generally axillary and reduced lo sessile clusters in hakea, terminal and loose in Grevillea, but they are loose and elongated in the ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1893)
"DESCRIPTION OF A NEW hakea FROM EASTERN NEW SOUTH WALES.« BY BARON VON MUELLER, KCMG, M. & PH.D., FRS, AND JH MAIDEN, FLS, ..."

3. Pollen by Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1877)
"montana, 10. linearis. MH sulphurea. H. pubescens. F. setacea. F. mucronata. F. Bauen. F. *hakea nodosa, 10. ..."

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